A hungry man with a taste for soft shoulder — Luis Suarez’s World Cup bite is felt ’round the world

Somewhere Mike Tyson is thinking, “I only bit ONE guy, and they said I was a vampire.”

The former heavyweight champ, who infamously chomped on Evander Holyfield, has been outbitten by Uruguayan soccer star Luis Suarez. Suarez sunk his teeth into the left shoulder of Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini in front of the Italy goal Tuesday. A minute later Uruguay scored the winning goal in a 1-0 win that sent Italy packing from the World Cup. Later, Suarez said, “These things happen in the box.” If that were so, Americans would pay attention to soccer at other times of the year.

Unbelievably, it was the third time Suarez has bitten an opponent during a match. In a profile before the World Cup, the Toronto Star predicted: “He will do something insane at this summer’s World Cup — mark it down. … Eventually, he’ll punch a baby.”

In the lead-up to the Cup, the satirical website The Onion sized him up: “Strengths: Knows racial slurs in nine languages; Sharp molars in lower jaw; Obliviousness to social norms and basic human decency allows him to really focus on playing soccer. Weakness: Has trouble adapting game to civilized society.”